Such a shame they took the Fox name and marquee down. This happens all the time, someone comes along with major money for the remodel and the original name large marquee comes down. Needed to be called The Alberta Bair Fox. They all want their name on the buildings some way. Its still the FOX to most people in Billings.
Thanks CC for the photo. Later on they put in a twin upstairs with 70mm also roadshow. Later a giant curved Super 70mm Cinerama screen was put in downstairs on the old stage. Tjis made our second Cinerama screen for SF. The RKO Golden Gate Cinerama screen was way smaller then the one that came off the stage at the Orpheum Theatre down the street. The Golden Gate still stands today but needs a complete makeover outside to bring back the neon blade marquee neon color and tubes. Time for the bad old brown paint to go.
Thanks CC. You would think some brave theatre circuit would put in a deluxe huge curved screen with curtains that work today. They have no showmanship.
Thanks M1944 for the ad. We were lucky to have one of these ABC Plitt UltraVision screens near San Francisco in Daly City. Such a nice curved screen with great focus. Torn down for a boring parking lot.
Was up in Healdsburg for the first time this past Friday afternoon and visited this former movie theatre now open for live events. A nice lady let me come in to check out the place. Still in good shape and they kept a great art deco light fixture on the ceiling of the lobby. This light would look so hot with Blue LED’s inside in place of white lights. I think It had color lights when It ran as a movie theatre. Time for them to get a fund going to put some color deco side lights on the side walls in as the original ones are long gone. Hope they can show some classic movies also. Check the theatre out If you are in town and see a event.
I hear this was the former JC Penny’s store they put in small screens. Only theatre open showing movies in town. The other Raven theatre is used for live events. It was a former cinema named the Aven
Thanks CC what a great stage show and a movie in CinemaScope® also. Backstage must have been crowded, they probably played in front of the screen or curtain. Mathis is still playing on stages around the world without a movie.
We visited this little gem in Petaluma CA this past Saturday. Still open with a live music venue but It has so much potential. Clean up and turn into a retro cinema with live shows on the large stage. The place has the most graffito I have ever seen in a old movie theatre but It is more like custom bright color art work and we enjoyed It in places. Thanks to Tom the manager who keeps the place open and was nice enough to let us take some photos. Hope to see the theatre restored some day soon. They don’t have to go first movie run but show some classics now on DCP on a large screen with surround stereo plus live stage shows with different acts. Put semi new seats back in on the main floor. So nice to see this huge former cinema still open and not some little shoe box cinema they have around these days.
Thanks so much Shaun for the photo. This movie theatre still sits intact and ready to open again some day. My friend Jack Tillmany who wrote the SF & Oakland movie theatre photo books was once the manager.
Thanks Riv for the ad. So nice this great cinema tells the public the things It has to offer. I must check out the curved screen. Hope they have curtains also.
Thanks R8 for the nice photo of the Lake Theatre. The owners of CineMark/Century and other lame circuits need to visit this place and get the ball going with some color lights in their theatres. Bright old white lights are so boring.
They did a semi nice job in the large cinema but they have the pre show white lights so high It ruins the screen image. Bring on some color blue lights like they had before. The other cinemas are way to small for me. At least Cinema West has saved the State for a future generation to enjoy. The new generation has no idea how nice the place was before with curtains and color lights.
Not the best in theatre screen size. Only screens #8 & #9 are semi large. They turned their #8 into a XD screen and is not much larger then what they had up before and they charge $ more. The sound at all their cinemas here except the XD auditorium is very flat, no deep base not much surround volume. Went to see Murder Orient today in #10 and the seats are placed very close no leg room. When they built this place many years ago they cut back on neon ect. Needed to be a luxury 12 plex with large spaces but they put in very small 20 screens. Won’t be going back to this location in Redwood City. No masking at Century these days a sad place to watch a scope movie on a flat square screen with white showing above and below. Will take a AMC or Regal Theatre any day!.
Thanks Elmo for the ad. This curved UltraVision® screen that ABC Plitt had in many of their cinemas was a great system to watch a film in. We had one in Daly City CA near SF and now It has been torn down for a dumb parking lot.
Thanks so much David for this photo. I went to the Broadway and Rex Theatre a few times in High School. Oakland tore down so many theatres in the downtown area. At least the Fox Oakland & Paramount are still around, I worked at both of them.
Such a shame they took this nice old neon marquee down when the Henry Fonda now Music Hall theatre took over this spot in Hollywood. It could have been called the Pix Music Hall. Can you imagine in today’s prices the cost to put this neon sign that flashed back. I saw ‘Thank God It’s Friday’ here in 4 CH Mag Stereo. Thanks Paul for the photo.
Wow Mike thanks for the photo. The color must have looked great on the curtain. You won’t find our small shoe box theatres today with such a nice curtain, just a plain old white screen.
Good news thanks to Scott one of the managers at Theatre Delmar the great red waterfall curtains are working again as of Oct 7 2017. We hope Scott like before can also put in a cue for the curtains to close again on the last 10sec of trailers then open again on the main feature. Showmanship is back at Landmark in Santa Cruz! Now let’s go to work on the neon marquee repair project.
Such a shame they took the Fox name and marquee down. This happens all the time, someone comes along with major money for the remodel and the original name large marquee comes down. Needed to be called The Alberta Bair Fox. They all want their name on the buildings some way. Its still the FOX to most people in Billings.
Thanks CC for the photo. Later on they put in a twin upstairs with 70mm also roadshow. Later a giant curved Super 70mm Cinerama screen was put in downstairs on the old stage. Tjis made our second Cinerama screen for SF. The RKO Golden Gate Cinerama screen was way smaller then the one that came off the stage at the Orpheum Theatre down the street. The Golden Gate still stands today but needs a complete makeover outside to bring back the neon blade marquee neon color and tubes. Time for the bad old brown paint to go.
Thanks CC. You would think some brave theatre circuit would put in a deluxe huge curved screen with curtains that work today. They have no showmanship.
Thanks CC for the photo. Looks like they may have kept the black light murals?
Thanks CC, great color neon. You won’t find the movie circuits in the USA with this feature. They all have the worst side lights.
Thanks David great lost photo and to see what was playing on the giant curved Chinese Cinemiracle screen.
Thanks M1944 for the ad. We were lucky to have one of these ABC Plitt UltraVision screens near San Francisco in Daly City. Such a nice curved screen with great focus. Torn down for a boring parking lot.
Too bad they took off this great neon marquee. It’s now at the Neon Museum in Glendale. Thanks David for the photo.
Was up in Healdsburg for the first time this past Friday afternoon and visited this former movie theatre now open for live events. A nice lady let me come in to check out the place. Still in good shape and they kept a great art deco light fixture on the ceiling of the lobby. This light would look so hot with Blue LED’s inside in place of white lights. I think It had color lights when It ran as a movie theatre. Time for them to get a fund going to put some color deco side lights on the side walls in as the original ones are long gone. Hope they can show some classic movies also. Check the theatre out If you are in town and see a event.
I hear this was the former JC Penny’s store they put in small screens. Only theatre open showing movies in town. The other Raven theatre is used for live events. It was a former cinema named the Aven
A sad shot, looks like someone got the surrounds from the left side. A bowling type cinema, what did they do for scope?
Thanks CC what a great stage show and a movie in CinemaScope® also. Backstage must have been crowded, they probably played in front of the screen or curtain. Mathis is still playing on stages around the world without a movie.
We visited this little gem in Petaluma CA this past Saturday. Still open with a live music venue but It has so much potential. Clean up and turn into a retro cinema with live shows on the large stage. The place has the most graffito I have ever seen in a old movie theatre but It is more like custom bright color art work and we enjoyed It in places. Thanks to Tom the manager who keeps the place open and was nice enough to let us take some photos. Hope to see the theatre restored some day soon. They don’t have to go first movie run but show some classics now on DCP on a large screen with surround stereo plus live stage shows with different acts. Put semi new seats back in on the main floor. So nice to see this huge former cinema still open and not some little shoe box cinema they have around these days.
Thanks so much Shaun for the photo. This movie theatre still sits intact and ready to open again some day. My friend Jack Tillmany who wrote the SF & Oakland movie theatre photo books was once the manager.
Thanks Riv for the ad. So nice this great cinema tells the public the things It has to offer. I must check out the curved screen. Hope they have curtains also.
Thanks R8 for the nice photo of the Lake Theatre. The owners of CineMark/Century and other lame circuits need to visit this place and get the ball going with some color lights in their theatres. Bright old white lights are so boring.
They did a semi nice job in the large cinema but they have the pre show white lights so high It ruins the screen image. Bring on some color blue lights like they had before. The other cinemas are way to small for me. At least Cinema West has saved the State for a future generation to enjoy. The new generation has no idea how nice the place was before with curtains and color lights.
Thanks Gran for the great curtain photo. These type of waterfall curtains need to be put in the Castro Theatre in SF.
Not the best in theatre screen size. Only screens #8 & #9 are semi large. They turned their #8 into a XD screen and is not much larger then what they had up before and they charge $ more. The sound at all their cinemas here except the XD auditorium is very flat, no deep base not much surround volume. Went to see Murder Orient today in #10 and the seats are placed very close no leg room. When they built this place many years ago they cut back on neon ect. Needed to be a luxury 12 plex with large spaces but they put in very small 20 screens. Won’t be going back to this location in Redwood City. No masking at Century these days a sad place to watch a scope movie on a flat square screen with white showing above and below. Will take a AMC or Regal Theatre any day!.
Thanks Elmo for the ad. This curved UltraVision® screen that ABC Plitt had in many of their cinemas was a great system to watch a film in. We had one in Daly City CA near SF and now It has been torn down for a dumb parking lot.
Thanks Roger for the 35mm booth photo. Must have been a very deep throw to the screen the way the projector is tilted.
Thanks so much David for this photo. I went to the Broadway and Rex Theatre a few times in High School. Oakland tore down so many theatres in the downtown area. At least the Fox Oakland & Paramount are still around, I worked at both of them.
Such a shame they took this nice old neon marquee down when the Henry Fonda now Music Hall theatre took over this spot in Hollywood. It could have been called the Pix Music Hall. Can you imagine in today’s prices the cost to put this neon sign that flashed back. I saw ‘Thank God It’s Friday’ here in 4 CH Mag Stereo. Thanks Paul for the photo.
Wow Mike thanks for the photo. The color must have looked great on the curtain. You won’t find our small shoe box theatres today with such a nice curtain, just a plain old white screen.
Good news thanks to Scott one of the managers at Theatre Delmar the great red waterfall curtains are working again as of Oct 7 2017. We hope Scott like before can also put in a cue for the curtains to close again on the last 10sec of trailers then open again on the main feature. Showmanship is back at Landmark in Santa Cruz! Now let’s go to work on the neon marquee repair project.